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15.06.2008: new nuclear plants?
with both climate change and peak oil at our heels, quite some people are looking at building new nuclear power plants. that is of course extremly stupid, but you might need some more ammunition to argue that. fortunately you can find a lot in this document. of course this is also quite biased, but it still has some very interesting points in it. apart from the obvious (risk etc), i especially like the arguments in the direction of
- new nuclear plants will not help, it will be "to little, too late"
- nuclear plants are *not* economically feasaible, and they do not produce reasonably priced energy. no such plant has ever been built in a free energy market
22.02.2008: dicelab 0.6
dicelab version 0.6 finished, this contains a lot of work on defering whether an operator actually cares about the ordering of the argument list. For example in "first 1 2#d6" the "first" operator does care, where in "sum 2#d6" the "sum" operator doesnt. since the number of possibilities for a list is much smaller if the numbering doesnt count, this is much smaller. In this version this is exploited (even in the "let" expressions!) with great inpact on the performance in many cases.
10.12.2007: dicelab 0.5
a new release of dicelab is out, i have fixed tons of cases where the previous versions returned wrong results, as well as some memory leaks and segfaults. this version sports an extensive test suite too, so the results should be much more reliable
06.12.2007: @debian.org
after about a millenium i got access to the debian repository today! lots of things to explore, and hopefully better turnaround times when updateing my packages!
06.11.2007: LibRCPS v0.1 released
after years of having the code rot on my harddisk, i have finally managed to clean it up, restrcuture it, write some docs and release the whole thing. have fun with LibRCPS and give some feedback
14.08.2007: dicelab 0.4
dicelab 0.4 does everything it is intended to (including "real" statistics), and is much faster than 0.3. a win32 package is in the same directory.
11.03.2007: dicelab can now do statistics
dicelab 0.2 can now do statistics, not by really calculating them, but by rolling a bazillion times and just tallying the results. not really cool, but a start...
21.02.2007: finally!
a few years ago me and some friends where trying to build a software that can calculate the statistical distribution of dice rolls. we didn't get it to work. now i know that our approach at that time had serious flaws, so i tried again. It doesn't do the statistics part yet, just the rolling of the die, but i think/hope that the foundation is much more solid this time and that it will be possible to add the rest of the functionality soon.
17.02.2007: cryptoroot over md raid in etch
the new debian installer rocks, but it does not yet work in every weird case. so should you want to have encryption over raid on the root partition (who doesn't?), follow these steps to get it working instead of fiddling around for days (as i did): a) use the text-mode installer, not the graphical one as it seems to have problems with setting up encrypted swap b) just do you partitioning as if the installer would work c) reboot d) find yourself confronted with an error message and a busybox shell instead of a working computer e) edit your grub boot line (in the grub menu, and later in /boot(grub/menu.lst and add a kernel parameter like cryptopts=source=/dev/md0. of course it might be a different md device in your case f) have fun
06.11.2006: bitte unterschreiben sie hier...
alle die dürfen: unterschreiben! dem text der petition möchte ich noch hinzufügen dass das bisherige, physische, wählen nicht nur technisch besser (im sinne von sicherer und einfacher) ist, sondern auch methodisch viel besser geeignet ist dem wähler die wichtigkeit dieser aufgabe vor augen zu führen und ihn wenigstens ein wenig zum aktiven mitmachen anzuregen.
24.10.2006: my sudoku solver
a while ago i kinda got caught in the sudoku craze (which is a bit hard to admit). this is really annoying, because sudokus are easy to generate and kinda popular, so they are printed on peper shopping bags and the like. which is really bad because it takes quite some time to solve all these puzzles you never
asked for. not anymore! i wrote a small solver program so i never ever have to do this tedious work myself. if you are interested, you can look at the (very ugly) code here, i certainly learned a few interesting things while writing this...
25.05.2006: the .com internet
when the internet was still young many people believed it to be the best thing ever invented, that it would connect all people, made them talk to each other, make the world more democratic, and so on. In short, people believed the internet to be a chance for a big improvement of mankind. Well, as usual mankind turned out to be pretty resilient to any improvements and instead decided to turn the net into a bif adversiting board and a b2b plattform. many people claimed the "dot coms" for this.
but in reality .com doesn not at all mean "comercial bastard", but in fact "nice comic"
as
you
can
see
from
these
many
and
diverse
examples.
ps: bene, i now owe your company about 2 weeks worth of work ;)
29.03.2006: postscript goodness
if you wanna learn postscript, have a look at what this
dude has done. pretty sweet! (warning: doesn't seem to know how to use gzip though)
19.01.2006: as if ahmadinedschad wasn't scary enough...
... some people
always have to pour oil into the already quite big chemical fire of current
politics
14.12.2005: and while we're at it:
again
a couple of gestapo wankers got their way. this is seriously starting to piss me
off, can't these fuckwits do what is in the interest of the people who voted for
them at least once?
22.11.2005: just that you aren't paranoid...
this is
highly irritating and a good reminder of a few things: cops are wankers and
cameras should be broken. fuck.
21.11.2005: crackheads alert
there are some
people that are completely sick in the most impressive way. i'd be in for a
foundation to keep this guy from the street and in good supply of crack and
parts to do more shit like that...
17.10.2005: comic
am i glad there are anough people on this planet that make stuff like
this to keep me from
doing any work...
09.09.2005: vacation!
flat warming party: survived, vacation: next. i'll be offline for two weeks in
case you were wondering. while i'm away, please make sure the wackos don't take over...
28.07.2005: while we're at it...
...you could sign this
petition to help preventing shit like that being introduced on a europe-wide
basis.
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